The history of black women working for Nasa goes back much further than the 1960s - the period of the film Hidden Figures - and their struggles continued afterwards.

But the black women stayed and re-invented themselves when computers became important, learning to code and program. Besides her book for adults, Shetterly wrote a Young Readers’ Edition of ...

In honor of Women’s History Month, The Root collaborated with Google’s CS Education in Media team to speak with 10 black women in computer science and engineering who have been spearheading ...

Away from her hush-hush work, though, Ms. Roberts-Hayden was inspirational. As a person of strong Catholic faith, and a Black woman in a workforce made up mostly of white men, she set an example ...

The history of black women working for Nasa goes back much further than the 1960s - the period of the film Hidden Figures - and their struggles continued afterwards.